What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

WantoN said:
That's a COPR repo right? I tend to avoid them.
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cachy extra repository, so part of the distro not necessarily an AUR package (it can be pacman'd for official Arch) and is installed by default.

COPR is a Fedora repo? no idea about their repositories (Deb/Arch more my bag).

Edit - Ah, had a google, the Fedora community repo, fair enough, though i'd imagine the dev's own upload would be OK (i'm a lot less leery of community maintained packages on home desktop as opposed to a corporate environment). Though there is a Flatpak if you use that. ;)
 
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Mercurial said:
cachy extra repository, so part of the distro not necessarily an AUR package (it can be pacman'd for official Arch) and is installed by default.

COPR is a Fedora repo? no idea about their repositories (Deb/Arch more my bag).

Edit - Ah, had a google, the Fedora community repo, fair enough, though i'd imagine the dev's own upload would be OK (i'm a lot less leery of community maintained packages on home desktop as opposed to a corporate environment). Though there is a Flatpak if you use that. ;)
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I do indeed flatpak, though for this it'd likely need some cli tweaks. I tend to opt for official upstream or RPM fusion when I can.

I set a mission of making this build more secure than my usual slap-dash approach, but oc/UV has been a pain point. I initially discounted it, but I'm very tempted by LACT now, especially given, as you say, it's the Devs upload.

I use MangoHud, didn't know about Mango juice but a GUI for config is very appealing so I'm nabbing that tomorrow, and I'll have one more crack at getting it working with COPR distros before I cave.

Appreciate the info thank you!
 
No problem, and you've prompted me to re-acquaint myself with Red Hat/Fedora which I've not used personally (except for a brief play with Bazzite & Nobara) or professionally for about 15 years! Also it is a worthy endeavour to seek to be more secure and organised so don't give up :) , but some utilities, especially those related to gaming aren't deemed relevant enough, especially to the more business focused distributions (of which I would count Fedora) so you are hard pushed not to use an external source, unless you want to write/configure something yourself which you sound like you are doing to an extent.

Mangojuice is a lovely frontend for MangoHud (imo) and takes the slog out of making changes on the fly, I think you'll like it. Good luck :)

Edit - you mentioned CLI in relation to Flatpaks, do you use Flatseal? it can help with permission woes, if that is what you need to address.
 
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Mercurial said:
No problem, and you've prompted me to re-acquaint myself with Red Hat/Fedora which I've not used personally (except for a brief play with Bazzite & Nobara) or professionally for about 15 years! Also it is a worthy endeavour to seek to be more secure and organised so don't give up :) , but some utilities, especially those related to gaming aren't deemed relevant enough, especially to the more business focused distributions (of which I would count Fedora) so you are hard pushed not to use an external source, unless you want to write/configure something yourself which you sound like you are doing to an extent.

Mangojuice is a lovely frontend for MangoHud (imo) and takes the slog out of making changes on the fly, I think you'll like it. Good luck :)

Edit - you mentioned CLI in relation to Flatpaks, do you use Flatseal? it can help with permission woes, if that is what you need to address.
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Im aware of Flatseal but I hadn't tinkered. It's a great shout and I'm going to research, thank you.

I'm very pleased with Fedora. I wanted to make a permanent switch and reacquaint myself with Linux. I set myself some challenges along the way; secure boot, privacy focused, strong gaming but not a gaming OS, make NVidia work, get full GPU VM passthrough, work from home, wife-friendly.

I agonised for a while, but overall Fedora was the right choice for me. I've approached it like a project; logged everything, planned software stack, drafted pretty robust documentation along the way. I swapped to a 6800xt midway, and if LACT fixes my woes, it'll be time to test a Kopia backup restore and then final wipe / fresh install to validate all my documentation.

I'm still pretty green, but doing it this way has at least help the knowledge stick somewhat :D

KDE Plasma to my eye is very slick, very configurable, and provides most of the dials and knobs in the GUI. Bundled apps are also pretty great, and I love the System Info and desktop widgets.

That said, there's been enormous opportunity to re-familiarise myself with the command line!
 
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You've touched on a couple of the great things about Linux right there; it doesn't matter if it is Arch/Debian/Fedora you can install whatever desktop UI you prefer into whatever distribution you like and there's always more than one way to go about achieving any one task/goal. If Fedora does what you want, how you want and looks how you like, then more power to you :)
 
Has anyone had a play with Omarchy yet? Seen a sudden explosion of YouTube recommendations for vids on it, and the out-of-the-box experience looks quite nice. I'm thinking if I were to switch my gaming PC to Linux, I'd probably still be better with another distro though?
 
squerble said:
Has anyone had a play with Omarchy yet? Seen a sudden explosion of YouTube recommendations for vids on it, and the out-of-the-box experience looks quite nice. I'm thinking if I were to switch my gaming PC to Linux, I'd probably still be better with another distro though?
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Yes, and it's honestly pointless for anyone other than someone trying to show off how much free time they've got on their hands. Use Fedora or CachyOS instead.
 
I am just interested in a decent out of the box tiling window manager that doesn’t need a ton of config. Not sure about the other parts.
 
Spleen Sauce said:
Yes, and it's honestly pointless for anyone other than someone trying to show off how much free time they've got on their hands. Use Fedora or CachyOS instead.
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Any reason for recommending them over something "simpler" like Bazzite or Nobara? I'm not a Linux newb (more just moderate newb) but do appreciate a more out-of-the-box, less-faff setup.
 
squerble said:
Any reason for recommending them over something "simpler" like Bazzite or Nobara? I'm not a Linux newb (more just moderate newb) but do appreciate a more out-of-the-box, less-faff setup.
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Bazzite is immutable so if you do want to make any system changes you’re in for a world of pain (but no harm in trying it).
Nobara is a mile away from friendly in that every major update will break something - it’s a super heavily modified version of Fedora.

Fedora 42 will work out of the box, is easy to install, easy to configure, has a nice easy to use App Store and is still a rolling distribution so it’s nice and modern with a new kernel. CachyOS is a bit more involved from the perspective that it’s based on Arch but still easy enough and the performance of the OS is excellent
 
Spleen Sauce said:
Bazzite is immutable so if you do want to make any system changes you’re in for a world of pain (but no harm in trying it).
Nobara is a mile away from friendly in that every major update will break something - it’s a super heavily modified version of Fedora.

Fedora 42 will work out of the box, is easy to install, easy to configure, has a nice easy to use App Store and is still a rolling distribution so it’s nice and modern with a new kernel. CachyOS is a bit more involved from the perspective that it’s based on Arch but still easy enough and the performance of the OS is excellent
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Thanks. I assume these recommendations will still stand if I say the PC will be used for nothing other than gaming? I've got a Mac Mini alongside it for the day-to-day everything else.
 
squerble said:
Thanks. I assume these recommendations will still stand if I say the PC will be used for nothing other than gaming? I've got a Mac Mini alongside it for the day-to-day everything else.
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In that case I’d go for CachyOS. If you’ve got an nvidia card, use the nvidia specific ISO and the drivers/config is sorted for you automatically (it’s what I use)
 
Spleen Sauce said:
In that case I’d go for CachyOS. If you’ve got an nvidia card, use the nvidia specific ISO and the drivers/config is sorted for you automatically (it’s what I use)
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I'm all-AMD here (9800X3D + 9070XT) so all good.

I need to keep researching some more but thanks for your input!
 
You can make just about any Linux distro good for gaming these days but there are one or two that are more focussed on gaming. Drauger OS in particular but that might be a bit of a steep curve for a new user. Garuda has a utility that is specifically aimed at getting you set up for games.
The great thing is they are all free and you can give them all a try, as Spleen Sauce says.
 
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CachyOS is the best distro right now. Arch based.

I was using PopOS for a few years, changed to CachyOs, then to Nobara, reinstalled Nobara, reinstalled CachyOS all in 2 weeks.
All the ISO file had an issue, apart from the last ISO for CachyOS.
It's the best for gaming since I'm using NVidia, but thinking about changing to RX 9070 XT new GPU.
So that will be suited better for gaming on Linux.

Look at the Wiki for helping.
 
I installed CachyOS last week and currently just jumping between windows and this as some games only run on windows.

Been windows for so long but now gaming isn't such a sticking point I am interested in migrating fully.
 
I have been testing a few releases, got Bazzite on a test box at moment, its OK but CachyOS is the next test.

PopOS is good but still not tried latest Fedora.
 
Yeah, been hopping again and getting sod all done. The Linux distro space reminds me of Android devices in a way, so much fragmentation . Some would argue choice is good but at times it stops me actually getting anything done lol.

Latest is Omarchy and it's actually quite good, despite the bloat included. It's unique for me in the fact it uses hyprland which I'm not overly familiar with so it's quite a novelty at present. Most of the time it's mainly KDE or Gnome, I did take a liking to Budgie on NixoS and Solus and went back to xfce but the scaling wasn't up to the task on a 4096x2160 monitor.

And maybe that's the point for me, at the end of the day it comes down to the DE or the WM rather than the distro itself and it's package managers or init systems.
 
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